Shopify heatmaps with the numbers on.
Each section of your Shopify homepage coloured by how it did, with its number and its sessions.
Two kinds of heatmap
The map above is the second kind, as it looks inside your Shopify admin. There is no recording to watch: click any block to see all four of its numbers.
Reading the map
Questions
Are there separate maps for mobile and desktop?
Yes. Switch between Mobile and Desktop and the map redraws your homepage with that device’s numbers, at the screen size most of your visitors use. Each device marks where the typical first screen ends and how many sessions did not view the next section. Tablets count with desktop. A phone often shows less of the homepage before any scrolling, so the two maps can tell different stories. The first screen on phones
How does Store Decode name each section?
By the name you give it first: Explore has a Rename sections button. Without one, a section takes its first heading, such as Shop by category. A section with no heading takes its type in plain words, such as Image with text, and failing that its position on the page. Your theme needs no tagging, because Shopify already marks every section and Store Decode finds each one itself. How sections are found and named
What happens on the map when a visitor declines cookies?
If your store’s cookie banner reports the visitor’s choice to Shopify, Store Decode’s script waits for it, and records nothing for a visitor who declines analytics. That visitor is not on the map. Where Shopify reports analytics allowed, the visit is measured as usual. Each block counts only the sessions it was allowed to see, and prints that count beside its number. What Store Decode collects